How do you prepare to close out the school year in Lucerne Valley? You host a worm race of course. For the 25th year, Lucerne Valley Elementary School sixth graders hosted the Great American Worm Race ...

The annual Woolly Worm Festival is a fiercely popular local event that’s been going on for nearly half a century. Todd Bush Last weekend, thousands of people flooded into a tiny town in North Carolina ...

Cole Peurifoy, 5, of Concord, brought the woolly worm which captured first place in Saturday races at the 33rd Annual Woolly Worm Festival in Banner Elk. Cole Peurifoy, 5, of Concord, brought the ...

AVERY COUNTY — The Woolly Worm Festival is crawling its way into Avery County classrooms this week in a big way, as organizers and educators have teamed up to bring the worm races to the schools ahead ...

Every October, thousands of people gather in the small mountain town of Banner Elk, North Carolina to predict the duration of winter. But instead of a famous groundhog in the spotlight, the job ...